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The flavor of the old capital’s commercial districts is best preserved along Liulichang Culture Street (Liulichang Xijie and Liulichang Dongjie) and the Dazhalan Mall (Dazhalan Jie), two conjoined avenues south of Tiananmen Square that run east-to-west for over 11⁄2 km (1 mile).
Drawn to a scale of 1:24,000, each 7.5-minute map sheet or quadrangle covers an area of 8.6 miles north-to-south by about 7 miles east-to-west (the east-to-west distance varies depending on location, since meridians of longitude radiate out from the poles and are farther apart nearer the equator).
(The currently used east-to-west numbering scheme was inaugurated in modern times and bears little resemblance to the system used in earlier centuries.)
The island is aligned almost east-to-west in the water so that sunrise wakes the eastern tip, proceeds to caress the length of the island, and kisses the western tip “good night. ”
Despite security problems at Logan (see, e.g., two local Fox 25 television investigative reports in February and April 2001, and an email in August 2001 from a former FAA special agent to the agency's leadership regarding his concerns about lax security at the airport), no evidence suggests that such issues entered into the terrorists' targeting: they simply booked heavily fueled east-to-west transcontinental flights of the large Boeing aircraft they trained to fly that were scheduled to take off at nearly the same time.